Maroefah Smith
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Vera Songwe to chair new Vodacom Foundation board (opens the original)
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The Foundation aims to positively impact 50 million lives across Africa by 2030, with its new structure focused on scaling digitally enabled programmes in connected health, connected education and digital skilling. Songwe, a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and former executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, will chair the board. The board includes Vodacom Group CEO and Foundation founder Shameel Joosub, Graça Machel, Vodacom Group chief Oofficer for external af
Building a legacy measured in people - Provantage (opens the original)
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Her appointment as general manager operations was not an overnight achievement. It was the result of years of consistent delivery, team-building and the accumulation of trust from both colleagues and clients. She describes it as one of her proudest moments because of what the progression represented: hard work that eventually, unmistakably, spoke for itself. She is anchored by the memory of her late mother, an exceptional leader in her own right, a people person who embodied compassion and integ
Women need to stop holding one another back - Provantage (opens the original)
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Her leadership style has evolved over time. Early in her career, she defaulted to being hard and driven, finding it difficult to claim space in rooms that were not always ready to make space for her. As she has grown into herself, the approach has softened. Empathy, she has found, is not a concession but rather the one thing that makes a difference. Two mentors shaped her trajectory: one who gave her access to C-suite thinking early; another who walked her through the operational detail until sh
Confidence is built, not born - Provantage (opens the original)
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As key accounts manager for Mall Ads, Abrahams works in one of advertising's most human environments. Malls are where people browse, decide, and buy and her job is to help brands meet consumers at exactly that moment. It is a role that rewards emotional intelligence as much as commercial acumen and she brings both. She speaks candidly about rejection (an inevitable feature of any sales career) and has reframed it entirely. A 'no' is usually a 'not yet'. Some of her best clients today said no mul
Believe you belong at the table - Provantage (opens the original)
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Finance has traditionally been a male-dominated profession and Davids is candid that early in her career she sometimes felt she had to work harder to prove her competence. Her response was not to become louder, but to become more prepared. Authority, she found, accumulates quietly through consistency, through understanding the numbers, through never walking into a room unprepared. She has been shaped by strong women: her mother, whose values of hard work, resilience, and integrity formed the bed
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